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Kenneth is 48% done with Blood Ties (Kingdom, #2)
Think Jo Nesbo and you think Harry Hole detective novels. Well perhaps not, but I did. With this book you get something very differen but so far enjoyable. I suppose you'd call the main character an anti hero, a man haunted by what he has done and what he failed to do.
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Blood Ties (Kingdom, #2)

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Kenneth is on page 200 of 370 of The Watcher
I had to dive up. Halfway through and I still don't find the main character believable. At one point I started to believe that this was a book about someone going quietly round the bend. in the end I couldn't find the motivation to continue,
Mar 15, 2026 03:55PM Add a comment
The Watcher

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Kenneth is on page 90 of 370 of The Watcher
I was sucked in by the premise, but so far the main character seems barely credible.
Mar 08, 2026 02:19PM Add a comment
The Watcher

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Kenneth is on page 65 of 368 of The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
The Beginning is, in parts, amusing and in parts, touching. It describes Elizabeth emerging from her grief.
Feb 20, 2026 10:13AM Add a comment
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)

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Kenneth is 66% done with The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
This book is overly long and I've faound myself trying to identify the parts that would be left out when it goes to the small screen. After six hundred pages I;m getting a little tired of strike and Robin dancing around one another as they try to conceal their fellings for each other.
Jan 23, 2026 12:37PM Add a comment
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)

Kenneth
Kenneth is finished with The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
Almost a hundred pages in with 800 to go, This is a big bookbut as usual the author sucks you in. It's as much about the ralationship between strike and Robin as it is about the plot, but that's fine because they are intertwined. so here I am, just 10% in and I;m hooked.
Jan 16, 2026 12:51PM Add a comment
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)

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Kenneth is 86% done with Past Lying (Inspector Karen Pirie, #7)
Set in Edinburgh during lockdown Karen Pirie is desperate and her crew are desperate to find something other than daytime TV to occupy their minds, When a librarien finds sometrhing in a dead author's archive.
Dec 10, 2025 12:56PM Add a comment
Past Lying (Inspector Karen Pirie, #7)

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Kenneth is 50% done with Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime
As an occasional writer of Crime Novels I thought I ought to read this and I can say that it's worth the read. The author not only talks about techniques but also details their origins and cases where their use was first accepted.
Oct 21, 2025 07:18AM Add a comment
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime

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Peter May at his island best. Those who've read the Lewis Trilogy and his other stories set on Hebridean Ilands will love this. Although it is set on a small Canadian Island, the sleepless investigating officer is haunted by his great Grandfather's diaries.
May 22, 2025 10:09AM Add a comment

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Kenneth is on page 64 of 417 of The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)
I'm a bit put off by the cliche-ridden opening. An unarmed ex-ranger takes out three assailants on a train before returning home only to be asked to do a favour for his handler. The daughter of the handler's old army pal has been murdered. Our hero, Devine, is sent to investigate.. It just seemed such a hackneyed plot that I'm not hopeful. Time will tell.
Feb 21, 2025 11:16AM Add a comment
The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)

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Kenneth is 25% done with Gold Mine
First impressions are that the first chapter is completely unnecessary. Having said that from chapter 2 you get into the story and the author sets the scene within the gold mine very well. Sadly I've already been niggled by what is, for me, a shocking error. "Popeye dashed into the cabin and smacked his hand down on the button that earthed the magnetos on the big diesel engines" Diesel engines don't have magnetos.
Jun 25, 2021 03:57AM Add a comment
Gold Mine

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First published in 1914 and what hits you first when reading this book is how little has changed in a hundred years. Although we now have a welfare state the attitudes of the people in tressels book still persist today.
May 15, 2021 08:53AM Add a comment

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Kenneth is 80% done with Moby-Dick or, The Whale
f you're looking for a rollicking nautical adventure, this isn't it. I've got this far and have been treated to a couple of Whale hunts but in terms of adventure that's about it. I read somewhere that Melville had already written the book on whaling before he heard the tale of a whale that fought back. He then incor[porated the tale of Moby Dick into his existing book. It shows.
Mar 26, 2021 04:43AM Add a comment
Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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Kenneth is 25% done with Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By golly it's hard going. I don't think this book would ever be published today. Certainly not unless an editor took an axe to much of it. So far I've read a chapter devoted to the description of an Inn. A chapter devoted to a preachers sermon. A chapter that was a eulogy for the whaling industry. Another to describe first mate Starbuck. and we still haven't set sail.
Jan 16, 2021 06:57AM Add a comment
Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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Kenneth is 15% done with Moby-Dick or, The Whale
If you are looking for descriptive writing, this is it chapters and chapters of it. Melville uses a complete chapter to describe the Inn where he spends two nights. Another is devoted to the sermon in the seamen's chapel. it really is hard going.
Dec 22, 2020 02:11PM Add a comment
Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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Kenneth is 25% done with The Talisman (Legacy, #2)
Anyone looking for a tense prime suspect like detective novel will be disappointed. This is a tale of two brothers and the event that shaped their lives. As I read I keep seeing parallels with Willie Russell;s Blood Brothers
Apr 25, 2019 12:15PM Add a comment
The Talisman (Legacy, #2)

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Kenneth is 17% done with Cold Comfort Farm
Only just got started. The first 7% of the book is taken up by the introduction and foreword
Feb 27, 2019 02:39PM Add a comment
Cold Comfort Farm

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